Now that we are finished with the ancient Egypt unit, I would like you to reflect on what you have learned about ancient Egypt. Please complete these sentences clearly and with specific details. Write the answers on your wiki page. If you need reminders of what we did, just scroll through the assignments on this page or look through your notes.
1. The single most important thing I learned was... About mummification. Before, I didn't know how mummies were made, but now I know the whole process of how to make a mummy.
2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was...
3. What surprised me the most was... that they took brains out by their nostrils,
4. I would like to know more about... I would like to know more about the Egyptian's culture and arts.
5. The part that I think I will always remember was... That Hatshepsut was the first successful female pharaoh.
Assignment 3-5
Read the information here about the three kingdoms in ancient Egypt. The problem with these three paragraphs is that each paragraph does not have specific details or evidence. Your task is to find specific details and evidence from our textbook for the information presented in each paragraph about each kingdom. Then re-write the paragraph adding the new specific details and evidence you found. Write the new paragraph on your wiki page. Grade each paragraph for quality:
4=outstanding work, detailed, correct and above the call of duty
3=very good work, completes assignment, is above average
2=completes assignment correctly, average work
1=does not complete assignment, needs work
0=does not follow directions, assignment missing
Part 1 The Old Kingdom (2700 BCE - 2200 BCE)
Specific details and evidence about this kingdom can be found on pages 98-100 in our textbook.
Your specific details and evidence should give more information about...
Pyramids (definition, examples, construction details)
Workers
Importance of the pyramids
Part 2 The Middle Kingdom (2100 BCE - 1800 BCE)
Specific details and evidence about this kingdom can be found on pages 101-102 in our textbook.
Your specific details and evidence should give more information about...
the difference with the Old Kingdom
what life was like during this time
wars or battles and who was involved
Part 3 The New Kingdom (1500 BCE - 1000 BCE)
Specific details and evidence about this kingdom can be found on pages 101-102 in our textbook.
Your specific details and evidence should give more information about...
the causes of the growth of trade
what life was like in an empire
wars or battles (invasions) and who was involved
Assignment 3-3
Source:How to Mummify Nefermaat Directions: Go to the link above to mummify a body. As you work to mummify the body, answer the following questions clearly and with details on your wiki page.
They preserved the body after someone died because they wanted the person's soul to recognize the body.
How did they preserve bodies? What is this process of preservation called?
They used a process called mummification to turn the bodies in to mummies. First, they take out the organs and dried their bodies. After, they wrapped it in linen so that they can preserve it forever.
Explain how the brain was removed from the dead body. Why was the brain removed?
They stuck a metal hook inside the person's nose and smashed the brain into a lot of pieces so they can pull it out easier. They removed the brain out, because then, the Egyptians thought the brain wasn't important.
Name the four internal organs that were removed from the body. What was done with these organs?
The stomach,the liver, intestines, and lungs. All these organs go into a jar with the Horus's son's head as a lid.
What did they do with the heart? Why?
The Egyptians believed that the heart was the most important part of the human body, so they left it.
What is natron and why was it used? Using your scribble map of Egypt, name the area where natron came from.
Natron is a type of salt that sucks up moisture, and it was used to get off the moisture and dry the body.
What are amulets and how were they used? Give two examples of amulets that were used and explain why they were used.
Amulets were for good. Such as, the Udajut amulet was for good health
What happens to the body after it was mummified?
It is put into a sarcophagus and then into a tomb.
Assignment 3-1
Sources:
Carefully read your online textbook pages 88 and 89.(Note: Make sure you scroll down on page 89 to see more information.)
Use the map above, the maps in the Egypt Resources wiki page, or your Scribble Map search function
Directions:
Your task is to label a map of the Nile River and ancient Egypt on your current Scribble Map. You must mark, label, or represent famous sites, cities, and other objects. Label everything carefully. (Note: Mark means use a marker, label means use a text label, represent means draw a symbol to show the item.)
You must also provide an image and a description for some of the labels. Each description must be at least three sentences long and must be clear, detailed, and specific. Your description should give us clear information to help us understand the item or place and why it was so important for ancient Egyptians.
1. Represent and label the Nile’s Sixth Cataract to the First Cataract.
2. Label the Red Sea.
3. Represent three mines and three quarries. Provide an image and a description for each mine and quarry.
4. Represent and label these historic sites: the Valley of the Kings, the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the Sphinx, Abu Simbel, the Pharos (lighthouse in the port of Alexandria), the Bahriya Oasis and the Farafra oasis (include palm trees). Provide an image and a description for each historic site.
5. Mark these cities: Abydos, Thebes, Giza, Hermopolis, Memphis, Bubastis, Rosetta, Alexandria, Meroe, Khartoum, and Elephantine
6. Label these geographical features: the Western Desert, the Eastern Desert, the Nile Delta (include animals found here), the Sinai Peninsula, the Wadi el-Natrun, the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Suez, the Nubian Desert. Include animals of the desert. Provide an image and a description for each geographical feature.
7. Label Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt.
Assignment 3-1
Sources:
Carefully read your online textbook pages 88 and 89.(Note: Make sure you scroll down on page 89 to see more information.)
Use the map above, the maps in the Egypt Resources wiki page, or your Scribble Map search function
Directions:
Your task is to label a map of the Nile River and ancient Egypt on your current Scribble Map. You must mark, label, or represent famous sites, cities, and other objects. Label everything carefully. (Note: Mark means use a marker, label means use a text label, represent means draw a symbol to show the item.)
You must also provide an image and a description for some of the labels. Each description must be at least three sentences long and must be clear, detailed, and specific. Your description should give us clear information to help us understand the item or place and why it was so important for ancient Egyptians.
1. Represent and label the Nile’s Sixth Cataract to the First Cataract.
2. Label the Red Sea.
3. Represent three mines and three quarries. Provide an image and a description for each mine and quarry.
4. Represent and label these historic sites: the Valley of the Kings, the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the Sphinx, Abu Simbel, the Pharos (lighthouse in the port of Alexandria), the Bahriya Oasis and the Farafra oasis (include palm trees). Provide an image and a description for each historic site.
5. Mark these cities: Abydos, Thebes, Giza, Hermopolis, Memphis, Bubastis, Rosetta, Alexandria, Meroe, Khartoum, and Elephantine
6. Label these geographical features: the Western Desert, the Eastern Desert, the Nile Delta (include animals found here), the Sinai Peninsula, the Wadi el-Natrun, the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Suez, the Nubian Desert. Include animals of the desert. Provide an image and a description for each geographical feature.
7. Label Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt.
Assignment 2-8
Source: Read pages 76 and 77 in your online textbook Directions: Review Pages 76-77 and choose one of the groups below. Research the group you have chosen (two links are provided for each already) and complete The Characteristics of Civilization Chart for the civilization you have chosen. Write clear and detailed answers in the chart, on your wiki page.
Characteristics of Civilization
Civilization Name:Assyrians
Six Characteristics of Civilization
Evidence for Characteristic
Explanation
A System of Government
There are kings, leaders
The king makes all the decision for his/her empire.
Different Soical levels
Some people had a higher job than others
Make most of the decisions for their empire, and they are the people who command people what to do.
A regular food supply
Agriculture was d better because they took over Tigris and the Euphrates river.
If there are soldiers and slaves they have different jobs so there was specialization of labor.
Specialization of Labor
There are higher people then others.
Some people were soldiers and slaves( etc.)
A religous system
They believed in god.
All people who believed in god, they have religion.
Highly developed culture
Clay, artwork and clothing.
They knew how to make clothing, make their dishes or cups with clay.
Was it difficult to find evidence for the culture you picked? Why or why not?
Source: Read pages 74 and 75 in your online textbook Directions: Read the questions/directions carefully and write clear and detailed answers on your wiki page.
1. Read the "If you were there..." section on page 74. How will you advise the King?
I'll advise the king by saying that kings and nobbles should be punished in same ways because they are same human with no difference except the king has a higher job.
2. What happened to Ur by 2000 BCE?
Ur fell because Ur was frequently attacked by foreign attacks
3. Where was Babylon located?
Near the Euphrates River.
4. Who became the king of Babylon? When did he become king?
Hammurabi became a king in 1792 BC.
5. What is a monarch?
A ruler of a kingdom/empire.
6. After conquering all of Mesopotamia, what did Hammurabi call his empire?
The Babylonian Empire.
7. Hammurabi was a great warrior and leader. What other skills did he have?
He governed a very big empire and increased trades.
8. What is Hammurabi's Code? What areas of daily life did the code cover?
Hammurabi's code is laws that people had to follow. If people don't follow these laws, they will get punished. The Hammurabi's laws are not as much different than today's laws.
9. Give two reasons why Hammurabi's Code was important.
If there is no laws the world would be a mess because everybody will do what ever they want to do.
10. What eventually happened to the Babylonian Empire? How is this similar to what happened to the Akkadian Empire?
The Babylonian Empire fell like the Akkadian Empire after its first ruler died.
11. Read the different laws in the Code of Hammurabi on this site and choose three that you think are interesting. Copy the three laws and their numbers onto your page. Then for each law, explain why you think it's interesting. You can write about if you disagree or agree with the law or if you think the law is a good law or a cruel law.
196. If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. I don't think this will actually happen, but if it does, I will say this is fair, because if that person take out a man's eye, that person should get the same punishment. 197. If he break another man’s bone, his bone shall be broken. I think this depends on how the person broke the other person's bone. If the person who broke the other man's bone has a fair reason like, it was a wrestling game, that person should not get his bone broken back. 223. If he were a slave his owner shall pay the physician two shekels.- I disagree on this law, because being a slave is very hard because you have to clean, cook and do a lot of things that are very tiring, so they should get payed more.
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Assignment 2-6
I couldn't play the game because I wasn't here, and my macbook was broken.
Assignment 2-5
Use your online textbook pages 63 & 64 to answer these questions clearly and with details on your wiki page. Make sure to look through the whole page in your textbook and the links for the vocabulary when answering some of the questions.
1.Where did the Akkadians live?
They lived at the north part of Sumer.
2.What was their relationship with the Sumerians like before the 2300s B.C.E.?
They were peaceful.
3.Who was Sargon and what did he do?
Sargon was the person who rebelled against the Sumerian King and built the Akkadian empire.
4.What did Sargon establish?
The Akkadian empire
5.Define 'empire'.
a government under an emperor or empress.
6.Explain two examples Sargon is considered a great leader.
Sargon extended his empire's land and he made the first world's empire.
7.How long did Sargon rule his empire?
More than 50 years
8.What eventually happened to the Akkadian Empire?
They couldn't keep the empire safe, so, the Akkadian Empire got destroyed by the Ur.
9.Who eventually became the most powerful civilization in Mesopotamia again?
Sumer.
10.Using the picture of the City-State of Ur, what can you see in the picture that shows Ur was an advanced city?
Ur has walls surrounding the the city to protect the city. In addition there is a trading port.
Assignment 2-4
Using The Six Characteristics of a Civilization (see below) answer the following questions clearly and with details on your wiki page.
1. Is Korea/ the U.S. a civilization according to the six characteristics explained in class? Provide one example from Korea/the U.S. for each characteristic.
Yes, in Korea we have a government that makes laws of the country, and that is the president. All people have different social levels, like the principal has more power than the cleaning lady, so the principal gets more respect and can make more decisions.
2. Does a civilization, in your opinion, need to have all of the characteristics mentioned? Why or why not?Yes because all the things that are mentioned in the civilization. For example, if we don't have science, our lives would be harder, because medication is science, and medication is very important.
The Six Characteristics of a Civilization:
1. A system of government that directs and controls some actions of the members of the society.
2. A regular food supply that is not likely to suddenly change.
3. Specialization of labor, in which members of the society perform different jobs.
4. Different social levels, in which some members of the society are given higher status than others.
5. A highly developed culture including art, architecture, music, literature, science, and writing.
6. A religious system, which might include priests and temples.
Assignment 2-3
Please read pages 56-59 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page .
1. How did the Fertile Crescent get its name? The Fertile Crescent got its name because their soil was very good for growing crops.
2. What was the most important factor in making Mesopotamia's farmland fertile?The land is between two rivers, which water flows a lot. If a lot of water flows, the crops will automatically get fertilized. In addition, they irrigated the lands.
3. In what ways did a Division of Labor contribute to the growth of Mesopotamian civilization?The division of labor contributed to the growth of Mesopotamian civilization by dividing jobs, so that everyone could have a job and have something to do.
4. How might running large projects like the maintaining a large and complex irrigation system prepare people for running a government?
If you run a large project, you could be the leader of it, and if you do a good job of the leader, people will elect that leader as a president like in a government.
Assignment 2-2
Answer the following questions and define the vocabulary (if any) clearly and with details on your wiki page. Use the links above from the In Class Activity 2-1 called Event C:Building and Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System & Event D: Attacks by Neighboring Communities to help you answer the questions.
Event C: Building and Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System 1. What was the first simple method farmers used to get water to their fields from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
They carried water in buckets
2. How did farmers prevent flooding?
They built levees to prevent flooding.
3. Over time, carrying buckets of water to the fields was too difficult. Please clearly explain how levees, canals, dams, and reservoirs were used to make life easier for farmers?
The levees help hold the water from flooding. Reservoirs are used to store the water up. The dam is a barrier that is built across a river in order to stop the water from flowing. A canal is a long straight passage dug in the ground and filled with water for boats and ships to travel along.
4. Which word means an extra supply of something such as food?
Abundant.
5. What could happen if one canal was clogged?
All the other ones would get clogged too.
6. How did different villages take care of the complex irrigation system?
Event D: Attacks by Neighboring Communities 1. How did Mesopotamian villages help each other?
2. How were people, who lived very far apart, connected to each other?
They got connected from an irrigation system.
3. What did many villages grow into?
Many villages grew into states.
4. What do we call the region in Mesopotamia that had many growing cities and towns? What are the people called that come from this region?
5. How could one city stop the water from reaching another city?
Sacrificing one city is a way.
6. Why was it easy to attack other cities on the Mesopotamian plains?
They had nothing, even rocks.
7. What defense plan is best to protect a city?
To have trees surrounding the city.
Assignment 2-1
Answer the following questions and define the vocabulary (if any) clearly and with details on your wiki page. Use the links above from the Class Activity 2-1 to help you answer the questions. Event A: Food Shortage
1. What helped the human population to grow in Mesopotamia?
Agriculture and food surplus helped population grow in Mesopotamia.
2. What does cultivate mean?
It means to grow.
3. By 5000 B.C.E. what major problem did the farmers in the Zagros hills have?
They did not have any more land to farm more plants.
4. Using the choices in the critical thinking section of the activity, what is the best way to deal with the food shortage? Why?
I think B is the best way because when the crops get dry, you can make it not dry by making the river flow to the crops.
Event B: Uncontrolled Water Supply
1. What two major problems did farmers have as they tried to grow their crops on the Mesopotamian river plains?
The ground was very hard in summer, which made it hard to grow crops, or do any agriculture
2. How did they solve these problems?
They learned to control water supplies.
3. Where did the melted snow that caused flooding come from?
Mountains.
Assignment 9
Now that we are finished with the Early Humans unit, I would like you to reflect on what you have learned about Early Humans. Please complete these sentences clearly and with specific details. Write the answers on your wiki page.
1. The single most important thing I learned was... The single most important thing I learned was the 4 hominids, astralopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens. I think the 4 hominids are very interesting, because they change during time goes by they changed.
2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was...
The time line was ki nd of confusing to me because it was hard to memorize what was what, but now I know.
3. What surprised me the most was...
It was surprising that humans actually changed during time went by. Their brains got bigger, they got smarter, so they started using fire.
4. I would like to know more about... I would like to know more about the history of the 4 hominids, Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens.
5. The part that I think I will always remember was...the video we watched in class where they do the brain surgery.
Assignment 8
Use these two videos about Catal Huyuk to answer these questions clearly and completely on your wiki page.
1. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk that surprised you? Why did they surprise you? It surprised me when they did a surgery with an obsidian knife. These days, we need specific tools for surgery, but then they used such a common tool they use everyday in their life. In addition, it was surprising that they could of thought of this when technology was not really advanced. 1.They started to trade things. 2. They also started to tame wild animals. 3. They started to develop agriculture.
2. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk you knew already from class? I already knew they started taming wild animals, and they started trading things. In addition, I knew they used stone tools in that time.
3. Jookie is a 12 year old living in Catal Huyuk. Explain three ways her life is different than yours. (Note: Simply saying you have cell phones and she doesn't is an unacceptable answer.)
First, in my life, I use a lot more electrical objects than Jookie. Instead, Jookie uses stone tools, which is not an electrical object at all. Following on, our family buys food to eat, but Jookie's family did agriculture. Also, I live in an apartment that is hard made of stone bricks, but Jookie's family didn't live in houses made of stone bricks that are hard and safe like the 21st century houses
Assignment 7
Write 3 good test questions covering any of the topics we have studied so far.
THE 3 GOOD QUESTIONS:
What was the major change between the Neolithic period and the Paleolithic period?
Which hominid are we?
Explain the starting of agriculture.
Answer these questions clearly and completely on your wiki page.
1. What was the main difference between life in the Paleolithic period and life in the Neolithic period? The main difference was that in the Paleolithic period, they hunted and gathered, but in the Neolithic period people developed agriculture, so they didn't have to move around
2. How did people's lives change as they began to domesticate plants and animals during the Neolithic period?
People had their own homes to live in, so there was no reason to hunt or gather.
3. The advantage is that now we have advanced transportation, like buses, subways, cars, planes than just walking the whole day to go hunting and gathering. The disadvantage is that people who enjoy shooting guns and hunting can't hunt with out permission these days, so that could be a disadvantage.
Assignment 6
Use your online textbook (p. 40 & p. 41) to answer these questions clearly and completely. Please put your answers on your wiki page.
1. Read the paragraph in the Beginnings of Agriculture section on p.40 and answer the question (How could this discovery change your life?). I DONT GET THIS QUESTION You should ask about this in class.Ok Mr. Hurst.
It could change my life that now we can plant and make farms. Which is farming.
Read The First Farmers and Plants section on p.41 and answer these questions:
2. What is another name for the New Stone Age?
Neolithic Era.
3. What kinds of tools did people make during this time? What do you think they used these tools for?
Saws and drills. They are used to make houses and to cut wood.
4. In the textbook it says that people during the Neolithic period could now make fire. Which hominid would this be?
Us, the homo sapiens.
5. When we changed from gathering food to growing food, historians called it the Neolithic Revolution. Why do you think it's called a revolution?
Revolution, because it was the most important change in life for humans.
6. What is the definition for the word 'domestication'?
To make a wild animal used to living with or working for humans
7. Using the map on p.41, which animals were domesticated in Asia?
Horse, goat, sheep, and cow.
8. Using the map on p.41, where was corn first domesticated?
North America.
9. If you were a farmer, how would your life be different than a hunter and gatherer. Give three ways your life would be different.
Farmers can just grow things on their farms to eat. Also, farmers have their own homes to live in, but gatherers and hunters have to go around everywhere to hunt and gather. Also, farmers don't have to gather, they could just plant plants on their farms.
Assignment 5
Read pages 32-34 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page.
Why do historians need archaeologists and anthropologists to study prehistory? To know what ancient humans life was, and there looks. You could also find out how they lived and that’s history which is important.
What might have been one advantage of walking completely upright? One advantage is that we could transport faster with two feet than 4. Walking on 4 feet will be slower and more uncomfortable.
What kind of tools did people use during the Paleolithic Era? The people of the Paleolithic Era used choppers, sharpen stone, to cut, skin, and do alot of other stuff.
4. Design a stone and wood tool you could use to help you with your chores. Describe your tool in a sentence or two. The people of the Paleolithic Era used sharpen stone, chopper for everything. They used it for peeling off animal’s skin. Does not address the task here
5.What is a hunter-gatherer?someone who hunts for and gathers their food It was a system used for dividing labor. The men hunt and the women will gather while the men hunts.
6. In your opinion, what was the most important change brought by the development of language? Now each country has their own language that we could communicate with.
Define the boldfaced words above.
Prehistory- the period of time in history before information was written down.
Tools- an object that makes something easier to do
Paleolithic Era- is the "old stone age" that lasted about 10,000 years ago
Hunter-Gatherer- a member of a group of people who do not live in one place but move around and live by hunting, fishing and gathering plants
Assignment 4
Assignment 4
Please read pages 29 & 30 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page.
1. On which continent were Lucy and other hominids found?
In Africa
2. What is the scientific name of Lucy?
The scientific name is Homo habilis.
How long ago did Lucy live?
Lucy lived about 3 million years ago.
4. What was an important step in human development?
The important development was that, now we can walk on two legs freely.
5. Describe and explain how these hominids are different from each other. Use the charts about the hominids on page 30 to help you with the answer.
Make sure your answer is clear and detailed. incomplete
Australopithecus
Homo habilis
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens
Answer to #5
6. Which hominid is us now?
We are Homo sapiens
Assignment 3
Human Origins-The Puppet Play Project Response
Note you will have 3 class periods to prepare your plays. See Resources-1
Answer the following questions on your wiki page.
1. What were your roles in the 'Creation of a Puppet Show' project? I was the Ra.
What Problems did your group run into? We had a hard time meeting all together. Everybody’s schedule was different
3. How did your group deal with these problems? We called each other and cancelled our academies to meet.
4. Identify two similarities between all of the origin stories. My story says that humans were made with the tears of Ra, but the China origin story says that it was made by soil.
Compare and Contrast any of the two origin stories presented in class (at least one paragraph).
The Egyptian story was similar to the Chinese origin story because Ra was lonely like Nuwa, but the different thing is that they made human in different ways. Nuwa made it with hand, but Ra made it with the tears of sorrow and joy. However, these stories take places in different times and location.
Assignment 2
Just like the questions you were asked in class, please create five questions about the timeline we used in class. Missing
Assignment 1
Using your notes and page 4 from your online textbook, answer the following questions on your wiki page.
1. Were you born in a BCE year or an CE year? C.E year
2. Put the following dates in order:AD 2000, 3100 BC, 15 BCE, AD 476, AD 3, CE 1215
3100BC, 15BCE, 3AD, 476AD, 1215AD, 2000AD
3.If you read that an event happened c. AD 1000, what would that mean? It happened about 1000 years ago. It means around 1000 A.D
Assignment 3-8
Now that we are finished with the ancient Egypt unit, I would like you to reflect on what you have learned about ancient Egypt. Please complete these sentences clearly and with specific details. Write the answers on your wiki page. If you need reminders of what we did, just scroll through the assignments on this page or look through your notes.1. The single most important thing I learned was... About mummification. Before, I didn't know how mummies were made, but now I know the whole process of how to make a mummy.
2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was...
3. What surprised me the most was... that they took brains out by their nostrils,
4. I would like to know more about... I would like to know more about the Egyptian's culture and arts.
5. The part that I think I will always remember was... That Hatshepsut was the first successful female pharaoh.
Assignment 3-5
Read the information here about the three kingdoms in ancient Egypt. The problem with these three paragraphs is that each paragraph does not have specific details or evidence. Your task is to find specific details and evidence from our textbook for the information presented in each paragraph about each kingdom. Then re-write the paragraph adding the new specific details and evidence you found. Write the new paragraph on your wiki page. Grade each paragraph for quality:4=outstanding work, detailed, correct and above the call of duty
3=very good work, completes assignment, is above average
2=completes assignment correctly, average work
1=does not complete assignment, needs work
0=does not follow directions, assignment missing
Part 1
The Old Kingdom (2700 BCE - 2200 BCE)
Specific details and evidence about this kingdom can be found on pages 98-100 in our textbook.
Your specific details and evidence should give more information about...
Part 2
The Middle Kingdom (2100 BCE - 1800 BCE)
Specific details and evidence about this kingdom can be found on pages 101-102 in our textbook.
Your specific details and evidence should give more information about...
Part 3
The New Kingdom (1500 BCE - 1000 BCE)
Specific details and evidence about this kingdom can be found on pages 101-102 in our textbook.
Your specific details and evidence should give more information about...
Assignment 3-3
Source: How to Mummify NefermaatDirections: Go to the link above to mummify a body. As you work to mummify the body, answer the following questions clearly and with details on your wiki page.
- Why did Egyptians want to preserve dead bodies?
They preserved the body after someone died because they wanted the person's soul to recognize the body.- How did they preserve bodies? What is this process of preservation called?
They used a process called mummification to turn the bodies in to mummies. First, they take out the organs and dried their bodies. After, they wrapped it in linen so that they can preserve it forever.- Explain how the brain was removed from the dead body. Why was the brain removed?
They stuck a metal hook inside the person's nose and smashed the brain into a lot of pieces so they can pull it out easier. They removed the brain out, because then, the Egyptians thought the brain wasn't important.- Name the four internal organs that were removed from the body. What was done with these organs?
The stomach,the liver, intestines, and lungs. All these organs go into a jar with the Horus's son's head as a lid.- What did they do with the heart? Why?
The Egyptians believed that the heart was the most important part of the human body, so they left it.- What is natron and why was it used? Using your scribble map of Egypt, name the area where natron came from.
Natron is a type of salt that sucks up moisture, and it was used to get off the moisture and dry the body.- How was linen used during mummification?
It was used the wrap the body.- What are amulets and how were they used? Give two examples of amulets that were used and explain why they were used.
Amulets were for good. Such as, the Udajut amulet was for good health- What happens to the body after it was mummified?
It is put into a sarcophagus and then into a tomb.Assignment 3-1
Sources:
- Use the map above, the maps in the Egypt Resources wiki page, or your Scribble Map search function
Directions:1. Represent and label the Nile’s Sixth Cataract to the First Cataract.
2. Label the Red Sea.
3. Represent three mines and three quarries. Provide an image and a description for each mine and quarry.
4. Represent and label these historic sites: the Valley of the Kings, the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the Sphinx, Abu Simbel, the Pharos (lighthouse in the port of Alexandria), the Bahriya Oasis and the Farafra oasis (include palm trees). Provide an image and a description for each historic site.
5. Mark these cities: Abydos, Thebes, Giza, Hermopolis, Memphis, Bubastis, Rosetta, Alexandria, Meroe, Khartoum, and Elephantine
6. Label these geographical features: the Western Desert, the Eastern Desert, the Nile Delta (include animals found here), the Sinai Peninsula, the Wadi el-Natrun, the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Suez, the Nubian Desert. Include animals of the desert. Provide an image and a description for each geographical feature.
7. Label Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt.
Assignment 3-1
Sources:
- Use the map above, the maps in the Egypt Resources wiki page, or your Scribble Map search function
Directions:1. Represent and label the Nile’s Sixth Cataract to the First Cataract.
2. Label the Red Sea.
3. Represent three mines and three quarries. Provide an image and a description for each mine and quarry.
4. Represent and label these historic sites: the Valley of the Kings, the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the Sphinx, Abu Simbel, the Pharos (lighthouse in the port of Alexandria), the Bahriya Oasis and the Farafra oasis (include palm trees). Provide an image and a description for each historic site.
5. Mark these cities: Abydos, Thebes, Giza, Hermopolis, Memphis, Bubastis, Rosetta, Alexandria, Meroe, Khartoum, and Elephantine
6. Label these geographical features: the Western Desert, the Eastern Desert, the Nile Delta (include animals found here), the Sinai Peninsula, the Wadi el-Natrun, the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Suez, the Nubian Desert. Include animals of the desert. Provide an image and a description for each geographical feature.
7. Label Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt.
Assignment 2-8
Source: Read pages 76 and 77 in your online textbookDirections: Review Pages 76-77 and choose one of the groups below. Research the group you have chosen (two links are provided for each already) and complete The Characteristics of Civilization Chart for the civilization you have chosen. Write clear and detailed answers in the chart, on your wiki page.
Characteristics of Civilization
Civilization Name:Assyrians
Six Characteristics of Civilization
Evidence for Characteristic
Explanation
Assyrians
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/history/assyrians.htmhttp://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/egypt/a/assyriaintro.htm
Hittites
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MESO/HITTITES.HTMhttp://www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/history/hittites.htm
Chaldeans
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/middle_east/nebuchadnezzar.htmlhttp://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MESO/CHALDEAN.HTM
Assignment 2-7
Source: Read pages 74 and 75 in your online textbookDirections: Read the questions/directions carefully and write clear and detailed answers on your wiki page.
1. Read the "If you were there..." section on page 74. How will you advise the King?
I'll advise the king by saying that kings and nobbles should be punished in same ways because they are same human with no difference except the king has a higher job.
2. What happened to Ur by 2000 BCE?
Ur fell because Ur was frequently attacked by foreign attacks
3. Where was Babylon located?
Near the Euphrates River.
4. Who became the king of Babylon? When did he become king?
Hammurabi became a king in 1792 BC.
5. What is a monarch?
A ruler of a kingdom/empire.
6. After conquering all of Mesopotamia, what did Hammurabi call his empire?
The Babylonian Empire.
7. Hammurabi was a great warrior and leader. What other skills did he have?
He governed a very big empire and increased trades.
8. What is Hammurabi's Code? What areas of daily life did the code cover?
Hammurabi's code is laws that people had to follow. If people don't follow these laws, they will get punished. The Hammurabi's laws are not as much different than today's laws.
9. Give two reasons why Hammurabi's Code was important.
If there is no laws the world would be a mess because everybody will do what ever they want to do.
10. What eventually happened to the Babylonian Empire? How is this similar to what happened to the Akkadian Empire?
The Babylonian Empire fell like the Akkadian Empire after its first ruler died.
11. Read the different laws in the Code of Hammurabi on this site and choose three that you think are interesting. Copy the three laws and their numbers onto your page. Then for each law, explain why you think it's interesting. You can write about if you disagree or agree with the law or if you think the law is a good law or a cruel law.
196. If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. I don't think this will actually happen, but if it does, I will say this is fair, because if that person take out a man's eye, that person should get the same punishment.
197. If he break another man’s bone, his bone shall be broken. I think this depends on how the person broke the other person's bone. If the person who broke the other man's bone has a fair reason like, it was a wrestling game, that person should not get his bone broken back.
223. If he were a slave his owner shall pay the physician two shekels.- I disagree on this law, because being a slave is very hard because you have to clean, cook and do a lot of things that are very tiring, so they should get payed more.
Assignment 2-6
I couldn't play the game because I wasn't here, and my macbook was broken.Assignment 2-5
Use your online textbook pages 63 & 64 to answer these questions clearly and with details on your wiki page. Make sure to look through the whole page in your textbook and the links for the vocabulary when answering some of the questions.
1.Where did the Akkadians live?
They lived at the north part of Sumer.
2.What was their relationship with the Sumerians like before the 2300s B.C.E.?
They were peaceful.
3.Who was Sargon and what did he do?
Sargon was the person who rebelled against the Sumerian King and built the Akkadian empire.
4.What did Sargon establish?
The Akkadian empire
5.Define 'empire'.
a government under an emperor or empress.
6.Explain two examples Sargon is considered a great leader.
Sargon extended his empire's land and he made the first world's empire.
7.How long did Sargon rule his empire?
More than 50 years
8.What eventually happened to the Akkadian Empire?
They couldn't keep the empire safe, so, the Akkadian Empire got destroyed by the Ur.
9.Who eventually became the most powerful civilization in Mesopotamia again?
Sumer.
10.Using the picture of the City-State of Ur, what can you see in the picture that shows Ur was an advanced city?
Ur has walls surrounding the the city to protect the city. In addition there is a trading port.
Assignment 2-4
Using The Six Characteristics of a Civilization (see below)answer the following questions clearly and with details on your wiki page.
1. Is Korea/ the U.S. a civilization according to the six characteristics explained in class? Provide one example from Korea/the U.S. for each characteristic.Yes, in Korea we have a government that makes laws of the country, and that is the president. All people have different social levels, like the principal has more power than the cleaning lady, so the principal gets more respect and can make more decisions.
2. Does a civilization, in your opinion, need to have all of the characteristics mentioned? Why or why not?Yes because all the things that are mentioned in the civilization. For example, if we don't have science, our lives would be harder, because medication is science, and medication is very important.
The Six Characteristics of a Civilization:1. A system of government that directs and controls some actions of the members of the society.
2. A regular food supply that is not likely to suddenly change.
3. Specialization of labor, in which members of the society perform different jobs.
4. Different social levels, in which some members of the society are given higher status than others.
5. A highly developed culture including art, architecture, music, literature, science, and writing.
6. A religious system, which might include priests and temples.
Assignment 2-3
Please read pages 56-59 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page .1. How did the Fertile Crescent get its name? The Fertile Crescent got its name because their soil was very good for growing crops.
2. What was the most important factor in making Mesopotamia's farmland fertile?The land is between two rivers, which water flows a lot. If a lot of water flows, the crops will automatically get fertilized. In addition, they irrigated the lands.
3. In what ways did a Division of Labor contribute to the growth of Mesopotamian civilization?The division of labor contributed to the growth of Mesopotamian civilization by dividing jobs, so that everyone could have a job and have something to do.
4. How might running large projects like the maintaining a large and complex irrigation system prepare people for running a government?
If you run a large project, you could be the leader of it, and if you do a good job of the leader, people will elect that leader as a president like in a government.
Assignment 2-2
Answer the following questions and define the vocabulary (if any) clearly and with details on your wiki page. Use the links above from the In Class Activity 2-1 called Event C: Building and Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System & Event D: Attacks by Neighboring Communities to help you answer the questions.
Event C: Building and Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System
1. What was the first simple method farmers used to get water to their fields from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
They carried water in buckets
2. How did farmers prevent flooding?
They built levees to prevent flooding.
3. Over time, carrying buckets of water to the fields was too difficult. Please clearly explain how levees, canals, dams, and reservoirs were used to make life easier for farmers?
The levees help hold the water from flooding. Reservoirs are used to store the water up. The dam is a barrier that is built across a river in order to stop the water from flowing. A canal is a long straight passage dug in the ground and filled with water for boats and ships to travel along.
4. Which word means an extra supply of something such as food?
Abundant.
5. What could happen if one canal was clogged?
All the other ones would get clogged too.
6. How did different villages take care of the complex irrigation system?
Event D: Attacks by Neighboring Communities
1. How did Mesopotamian villages help each other?
2. How were people, who lived very far apart, connected to each other?
They got connected from an irrigation system.
3. What did many villages grow into?
Many villages grew into states.
4. What do we call the region in Mesopotamia that had many growing cities and towns? What are the people called that come from this region?
5. How could one city stop the water from reaching another city?
Sacrificing one city is a way.
6. Why was it easy to attack other cities on the Mesopotamian plains?
They had nothing, even rocks.
7. What defense plan is best to protect a city?
To have trees surrounding the city.
Assignment 2-1
Answer the following questions and define the vocabulary (if any) clearly and with details on your wiki page. Use the links above from the Class Activity 2-1 to help you answer the questions.
Event A: Food Shortage
1. What helped the human population to grow in Mesopotamia?
Agriculture and food surplus helped population grow in Mesopotamia.
2. What does cultivate mean?
It means to grow.
3. By 5000 B.C.E. what major problem did the farmers in the Zagros hills have?
They did not have any more land to farm more plants.
4. Using the choices in the critical thinking section of the activity, what is the best way to deal with the food shortage? Why?
I think B is the best way because when the crops get dry, you can make it not dry by making the river flow to the crops.
Event B: Uncontrolled Water Supply
1. What two major problems did farmers have as they tried to grow their crops on the Mesopotamian river plains?
The ground was very hard in summer, which made it hard to grow crops, or do any agriculture
2. How did they solve these problems?
They learned to control water supplies.
3. Where did the melted snow that caused flooding come from?
Mountains.
Assignment 9
Now that we are finished with the Early Humans unit, I would like you to reflect on what you have learned about Early Humans. Please complete these sentences clearly and with specific details. Write the answers on your wiki page.1. The single most important thing I learned was... The single most important thing I learned was the 4 hominids, astralopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens. I think the 4 hominids are very interesting, because they change during time goes by they changed.
2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was...
The time line was ki nd of confusing to me because it was hard to memorize what was what, but now I know.
3. What surprised me the most was...
It was surprising that humans actually changed during time went by. Their brains got bigger, they got smarter, so they started using fire.
4. I would like to know more about... I would like to know more about the history of the 4 hominids, Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens.
5. The part that I think I will always remember was...the video we watched in class where they do the brain surgery.
Assignment 8
Use these two videos about Catal Huyuk to answer these questions clearly and completely on your wiki page.- Catal Huyuk video 1
- Catal Huyuk video 2
1. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk that surprised you? Why did they surprise you? It surprised me when they did a surgery with an obsidian knife. These days, we need specific tools for surgery, but then they used such a common tool they use everyday in their life. In addition, it was surprising that they could of thought of this when technology was not really advanced. 1.They started to trade things. 2. They also started to tame wild animals. 3. They started to develop agriculture.2. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk you knew already from class? I already knew they started taming wild animals, and they started trading things. In addition, I knew they used stone tools in that time.
3. Jookie is a 12 year old living in Catal Huyuk. Explain three ways her life is different than yours. (Note: Simply saying you have cell phones and she doesn't is an unacceptable answer.)
First, in my life, I use a lot more electrical objects than Jookie. Instead, Jookie uses stone tools, which is not an electrical object at all. Following on, our family buys food to eat, but Jookie's family did agriculture. Also, I live in an apartment that is hard made of stone bricks, but Jookie's family didn't live in houses made of stone bricks that are hard and safe like the 21st century houses
Assignment 7
Write 3 good test questions covering any of the topics we have studied so far.
THE 3 GOOD QUESTIONS:
What was the major change between the Neolithic period and the Paleolithic period?
Which hominid are we?
Explain the starting of agriculture.
Answer these questions clearly and completely on your wiki page.
1. What was the main difference between life in the Paleolithic period and life in the Neolithic period? The main difference was that in the Paleolithic period, they hunted and gathered, but in the Neolithic period people developed agriculture, so they didn't have to move around
2. How did people's lives change as they began to domesticate plants and animals during the Neolithic period?
People had their own homes to live in, so there was no reason to hunt or gather.
3. The advantage is that now we have advanced transportation, like buses, subways, cars, planes than just walking the whole day to go hunting and gathering. The disadvantage is that people who enjoy shooting guns and hunting can't hunt with out permission these days, so that could be a disadvantage.
Assignment 6
Use your online textbook (p. 40 & p. 41) to answer these questions clearly and completely. Please put your answers on your wiki page.
1. Read the paragraph in the Beginnings of Agriculture section on p.40 and answer the question (How could this discovery change your life?). I DONT GET THIS QUESTION You should ask about this in class.Ok Mr. Hurst.
It could change my life that now we can plant and make farms. Which is farming.
Read The First Farmers and Plants section on p.41 and answer these questions:
2. What is another name for the New Stone Age?
Neolithic Era.
3. What kinds of tools did people make during this time? What do you think they used these tools for?
Saws and drills. They are used to make houses and to cut wood.
4. In the textbook it says that people during the Neolithic period could now make fire. Which hominid would this be?
Us, the homo sapiens.
5. When we changed from gathering food to growing food, historians called it the Neolithic Revolution. Why do you think it's called a revolution?
Revolution, because it was the most important change in life for humans.
6. What is the definition for the word 'domestication'?
To make a wild animal used to living with or working for humans
7. Using the map on p.41, which animals were domesticated in Asia?
Horse, goat, sheep, and cow.
8. Using the map on p.41, where was corn first domesticated?
North America.
9. If you were a farmer, how would your life be different than a hunter and gatherer. Give three ways your life would be different.
Farmers can just grow things on their farms to eat. Also, farmers have their own homes to live in, but gatherers and hunters have to go around everywhere to hunt and gather. Also, farmers don't have to gather, they could just plant plants on their farms.
Assignment 5
Read pages 32-34 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page.Why do historians need archaeologists and anthropologists to study prehistory? To know what ancient humans life was, and there looks. You could also find out how they lived and that’s history which is important.
What might have been one advantage of walking completely upright? One advantage is that we could transport faster with two feet than 4. Walking on 4 feet will be slower and more uncomfortable.
What kind of tools did people use during the Paleolithic Era? The people of the Paleolithic Era used choppers, sharpen stone, to cut, skin, and do alot of other stuff.
4. Design a stone and wood tool you could use to help you with your chores. Describe your tool in a sentence or two. The people of the Paleolithic Era used sharpen stone, chopper for everything. They used it for peeling off animal’s skin. Does not address the task here
5.What is a hunter-gatherer?someone who hunts for and gathers their food It was a system used for dividing labor. The men hunt and the women will gather while the men hunts.
6. In your opinion, what was the most important change brought by the development of language? Now each country has their own language that we could communicate with.
Define the boldfaced words above.
Prehistory- the period of time in history before information was written down.
Tools- an object that makes something easier to do
Paleolithic Era- is the "old stone age" that lasted about 10,000 years ago
Hunter-Gatherer- a member of a group of people who do not live in one place but move around and live by hunting, fishing and gathering plants
Assignment 4
Assignment 4
Please read pages 29 & 30 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page.
1. On which continent were Lucy and other hominids found?
In Africa
2. What is the scientific name of Lucy?
The scientific name is Homo habilis.
How long ago did Lucy live?
Lucy lived about 3 million years ago.
4. What was an important step in human development?
The important development was that, now we can walk on two legs freely.
5. Describe and explain how these hominids are different from each other. Use the charts about the hominids on page 30 to help you with the answer.
Make sure your answer is clear and detailed. incomplete
Australopithecus
Homo habilis
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens
Answer to #5
6. Which hominid is us now?
We are Homo sapiens
Assignment 3
Human Origins-The Puppet Play Project ResponseNote you will have 3 class periods to prepare your plays. See Resources-1
Answer the following questions on your wiki page.
1. What were your roles in the 'Creation of a Puppet Show' project? I was the Ra.
What Problems did your group run into? We had a hard time meeting all together. Everybody’s schedule was different
3. How did your group deal with these problems? We called each other and cancelled our academies to meet.
4. Identify two similarities between all of the origin stories. My story says that humans were made with the tears of Ra, but the China origin story says that it was made by soil.
Compare and Contrast any of the two origin stories presented in class (at least one paragraph).
The Egyptian story was similar to the Chinese origin story because Ra was lonely like Nuwa, but the different thing is that they made human in different ways. Nuwa made it with hand, but Ra made it with the tears of sorrow and joy. However, these stories take places in different times and location.
Assignment 2
Just like the questions you were asked in class, please create five questions about the timeline we used in class. MissingAssignment 1
Using your notes and page 4 from your online textbook, answer the following questions on your wiki page.1. Were you born in a BCE year or an CE year? C.E year
2. Put the following dates in order:AD 2000, 3100 BC, 15 BCE, AD 476, AD 3, CE 1215
3100BC, 15BCE, 3AD, 476AD, 1215AD, 2000AD
3.If you read that an event happened c. AD 1000, what would that mean? It happened about 1000 years ago. It means around 1000 A.D